[Incidence and severity of cardiac involvement in Streptococcus bovis septicemia. Report of 10 cases].
Endocarditis due to the streptococcus Bovis is an affection which is more and more often recognized and whose link with the colic tumor pathology has been well established those last few years and confirmed in this study with a frequency of 60 p. cent. However, few studies have stated the gravity of the heart affection in streptococcus Bovis septicaemias. In this series of 10 streptococcus Bovis septicaemias, the valvular affection is frequent and serious. The vegetations are found in 9 cases out of 10. The aortic affection is slightly more frequent (8 times out of 10), against 7 times out of 10 for the mitral affection (double mitroaortic affection, 6 times). A valve replacement due to sub-acute or chronic cardiac failure was necessary in 6 cases out of 9, that is 66 p. cent. The mortality was nil.
Oumeskour
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B
Service de Cardiologie, Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut Lévêque, Pessac.
Roudaut
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R
Texier-Maugein
J
J
Raynaud
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P
Dallocchio
M
M
D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000150:complications; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications*; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000150:complications*
Fréquence et gravité de l'atteinte cardiaque dans les septicémies à Streptocoque bovis. A propos de 10 cas.